Tag Archives: Keep Our St Helier Hospital
Tories choose NHS’s birthday to sound death knell for St Helier
The Tory government chose the weekend of the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the NHS to sound the death knell for acute services at St Helier Hospital, and at Epsom Hospital in Surrey. A 25-year-long battle to maintain and … Continue reading
St Helier’s NHS Trust ‘requires improvement’ says CQC
The trust which runs St Helier Hospital’s accident and emergency department is still rated “requires improvement”, following a return inspection by the Care Quality Commission. The CQC rated Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust as “Good” overall following … Continue reading
St Helier Hospital land sales public meeting, Epsom, May 21
Keep Our St Helier Hospital public meeting, Morden, Apr 24
Keep Our St Helier Hospital charity fund-raiser, Sutton, Dec 9
A fund-raising gig, featuring 1960s music from The Modern Apes, is being held this Sunday for the Keep Our St Helier Hospital group who are campaigning to protect your under-threat hospitals, and the services they currently provide. Date: This Sunday … Continue reading
St Helier Hospital charges nurses £1,200 to park at work
Hard-working and under-paid NHS staff at St Helier Hospital are forced to pay more than £1,200 a year just to use the hospital car park when they go in to work. St Helier is ranked second on a national list … Continue reading
Keep Our St Helier campaign public meeting, Morden, Jan 30
10,000 sign KOSHH petition against NHS hospital closures
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition opposing the closure of two local hospitals, including St Helier in Sutton. Hospital workers are convinced that Jeremy Hunt, the Tory health minister, is working on plans to close maternity and A&E … Continue reading
NHS Trust votes for St Helier closure, despite public opposition
The Tory Government is pushing ahead with plans to close the Sutton hospital where former Prime Minister Sir John Major was born NHS chiefs in south-west London want to close all acute, emergency and maternity facilities at two large hospitals, … Continue reading
Scully and Sutton Tories sent scrambling over St Helier plans
JAMES KILLDARE, our health correspondent (recently successfully put out to tender), reports on a growing row in Sutton over the Conservatives’ opaque plans for one of the area’s largest NHS hospitals It started so casually, with Sutton’s two MPs together … Continue reading
Not one but two south London hospitals now under threat
Just when you thought that Tory cuts to the NHS in this part of London could not get worse, they do. Health correspondent JAMES KILLDARE has seen the secretive STP report which could doom St Helier and St George’s, Tooting … Continue reading
Free screening of NHS film Sell Off, Wallington, Oct 13
Keep Our St Helier Hospital is staging a free screening of the acclaimed documentary, Sell Off, followed by a discussion in Wallington next Thursday, October 13. They say, “St Helier Hospital is under imminent threat of closure, and our NHS … Continue reading
Hospital closure plans could put added pressure on Mayday
Plans due to be published next month could see 650,000 extra people in south-west London depending upon the already under-pressure Mayday, Kingston and St George’s hospitals for their urgent and specialist medical care. The Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals … Continue reading
Sell-Off – The Abolition of the NHS: free screening, Jan 29
The Keep Our St Helier Hospital campaign – KOSHH – and Sutton’s Keep Our NHS Public are staging a free screening of Sell-Off – The Abolition of the NHS, followed by a discussion on Friday, January 29. In Sell-Off, filmmaker … Continue reading
